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[...]... married Paul Jobs in 1946; they adopted Steve soon after his birth in 1955 ERIN JOBS Middle child of Laurene Powell and Steve Jobs EVE JOBS Youngest child of Laurene and Steve PATTY JOBS Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs two years after they adopted Steve PAUL REINHOLD JOBS Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955 REED JOBS Oldest child of Steve Jobs and Laurene... member, Jobs s father figure JONATHAN “RUBY” RUBINSTEIN Worked with Jobs at NeXT, became chief hardware engineer at Apple in 1997 MIKE SCOTT Brought in by Markkula to be Apple’s president in 1977 to try to manage Jobs JOHN SCULLEY Pepsi executive recruited by Jobs in 1983 to be Apple’s CEO, clashed with and ousted Jobs in 1985 JOANNE SCHIEBLE JANDALI SIMPSON Wisconsin-born biological mother of Steve Jobs, ... exhortation “O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention.” For Steve Jobs, the ascent to the brightest heaven of invention begins with a tale of two sets of parents, and of growing up in a valley that was just learning how to turn silicon into gold STEVE JOBS Paul Jobs with Steve, 1956 The Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born In the Homestead High yearbook,... CHARACTERS AL ALCORN Chief engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs GIL AMELIO Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back BILL ATKINSON Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh CHRISANN BRENNAN Jobs s girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa LISA BRENNAN -JOBS Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York City... to Jobs REGIS MCKENNA Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor MIKE MURRAY Early Macintosh marketing director PAUL OTELLINI CEO of Intel who helped switch the Macintosh to Intel chips but did not get the iPhone business LAURENE POWELL Savvy and good-humored Penn graduate, went to Goldman Sachs and then Stanford Business School, married Steve Jobs in 1991 GEORGE RILEY Jobs s... entrepreneurial role model for Jobs BILL CAMPBELL Apple marketing chief during Jobs s first stint at Apple and board member and confidant after Jobs s return in 1997 EDWIN CATMULL A cofounder of Pixar and later a Disney executive KOBUN CHINO A Soōtoō Zen master in California who became Jobs s spiritual teacher LEE CLOW Advertising wizard who created Apple’s “1984” ad and worked with Jobs for three decades... by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011 EDDY CUE Chief of Internet services at Apple, Jobs s wingman in dealing with content companies ANDREA “ANDY” CUNNINGHAM Publicist at Regis McKenna’s firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years MICHAEL EISNER Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the Pixar deal, then clashed with Jobs LARRY ELLISON CEO of Oracle and personal friend of Jobs. .. seeker who influenced Jobs, then went on to run a mining company JEAN-LOUIS GASSÉE Apple’s manager in France, took over the Macintosh division when Jobs was ousted in 1985 BILL GATES The other computer wunderkind born in 1955 ANDY HERTZFELD Playful, friendly software engineer and Jobs s pal on the original Mac team JOANNA HOFFMAN Original Mac team member with the spirit to stand up to Jobs ELIZABETH HOLMES... with Jobs and Rubinstein at NeXT, became chief software engineer at Apple in 1997 JAMES VINCENT A music-loving Brit, the younger partner with Lee Clow and Duncan Milner at the ad agency Apple hired RON WAYNE Met Jobs at Atari, became first partner with Jobs and Wozniak at fledgling Apple, but unwisely decided to forgo his equity stake STEPHEN WOZNIAK The star electronics geek at Homestead High; Jobs. .. by Jobs in 1976 to be the electrical engineer on the Apple II ROBERT IGER Succeeded Eisner as Disney CEO in 2005 JONATHAN “JONY” IVE Chief designer at Apple, became Jobs s partner and confidant ABDULFATTAH “JOHN” JANDALI Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno CLARA HAGOPIAN JOBS . 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN 97 8-1 -4 51 6-4 85 3-9 ISBN 97 8-1 -4 51 6-4 85 5-3 (ebook) The people who are crazy enough to think they. HAGOPIAN JOBS. Daughter of Armenian immigrants, married Paul Jobs in 1946; they adopted Steve soon after his birth in 1955. ERIN JOBS. Middle child of Laurene Powell and Steve Jobs. EVE JOBS. Youngest. Laurene and Steve. PATTY JOBS. Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs two years after they adopted Steve. PAUL REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in